The acquisition of new land and soil for the settling of the superfluous population has no end of advantages...Or never let it get to war to start with. Chamberlain wrote the Polish Colonels a blank check he couldn't cash.
Instead, the world plunged into total war, ending with the USSR taking eastern Europe, China, North Korea, much of Africa when the Britsh and French empires collapsed. This is a good thing by you?
For Germany, therefore, the only possibility of carrying out a sound territorial policy was to be found in the acquisition of new soil in Europe proper. Colonies cannot serve this purpose since they do not appear suitable for settlement with Europeans on a large scale...
If one wanted land and soil in Europe, then by and large this could only be achieved at Russia's expense...
For such a policy, however, there was only one single ally in Europe: England
- Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf, Volume I, Chapter IV, "Munich"
The mortal enemy of our nation, France, relentlessly throttles us and robs our strength. We must undertake every sacrifice which may help bring about a nullification of the French drive for European hegemony.
- Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter XIV, "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy"
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If the United States and Great Britain had avoided fighting Nazi Germany, Germany would have conquered the mainland of Europe. An additional four million Jews would have been killed. I doubt you would mind that JoeB131. Decent people would.
After World War II the British calculated that the cost of maintaining the British Empire was greater than the rewards of maintaining it. Because the British gave their colonies independence, the vast majority of those colonies joined the British Commonwealth, and remain friendly to Great Britain.
Because the United States and Great Britain fought Germany, democracy was preserved for Western Europe. Since the fall of the Soviet Union democracy has spread to the border of Russia. I think that was worth fighting for.
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